Monday, December 31, 2007

finish the last poem, clear clutter,fold pigs into blankets, roll cheese logs,find the sheet music to Auld Lang Synebite my lip, chop almonds, hang clothes,empty hampers, trash cans, superstitionsclamoring to be met with everything new,though all I can think of is you, and then,not this bleak year to come, my birthday.

I’ll never get the house clean by five pmmuch less midnight, I should have startedafter Christmas, should’ve said yes, leftthat night when plowed snow blockedall the parking spaces, black skyquilted with lights, you against the angled carto apologize, we'd wait for some sort of magicon nights like that, tonight, here’s another

year gone and to come making do, holdingmemories like a chalice to my bloody lip,I am dizzy with awareness, with regret,a child who doesn’t gets what she wantsbecause she never asks, chopping onions,for help, chopping, chopping, rolling, humming,I will close my eye to better remember, wishaway the kiss at midnight, that sad song.

Friday, December 28, 2007

Finger tip to mosquito bite, rubthe itch away, now there, rub,now there, now there, a flashof something else not right, notbound by strange secrets that hidebehind chairs, sit very very still,mouse-like, sibilance skittersup the door jam while shadows markthe wall between photographs of usas we once were. Would you lieto make the story more believable?

Be the first on your block to hear "The Richmond Christmas Song" tomorrow morning on the radio!!

It starts at 8:10 on The Mix 103.7 with Jack and Jen in the morning, the main song will play about 8:30- we'll be interviewed and make up songs on the spot!

Some of the members of I-Prov, the musical improv players from ComedySportz, went over today to make a recording. All the suggestions came from regular listeners from email and phonecalls- we didn't use them all- but we got a lot into a short parody.

June on the James 2013

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